sunday's news and the stories that shape the week here in our ukraine's capital braces for a million man said government marched with western politicians led. against the odds for testers from remaining a village managed to fend off a major u.s. oil company that's exploring for shale gas near their home. to people across the globe or in the death of nelson mandela we'll look at how the anti-apartheid leader's image has changed over the years. now and special swiss relationship it's been revealed the scandinavian country has been helping america spy on russia's leadership.

in the russian capital and watching our t.v. with me marina joshua welcome to the program. ukraine's opposition is calling for a million people to join as a government for it protests in kiev on sunday for a rally that's feared to further heightened tension in the capital opposition leaders also say they will not talk to authorities on unless the government steps down for a task have gripped for more than two weeks now was a near revolutionary mood fueled by the support of some western politicians and reports only worrying is not the only one neighbor seeing anti government anger on the streets but for some reason cleaves independence square has captured the minds of politicians from europe and the west we have seen a variable parade example here on similar running outlets with the opposition leaders and even sometimes it is worth taking the survey to speak for the crowds and gets few seem to have made the past to hear it from both sides from the

country's leaders and their supporters. from an assistant to a secretary of state we stand with the people of ukraine who see their future in europe and want to bring their country back to economic health and unity to former polish president the supporters of euro integration must remain firm and seize the momentum of the protest this is the only way they can get you know coach to make concessions and current members of the european parliament with the whole civil society here and i'm a guy who needs to have possibility for the nation to express its wheel and saudis which means early election what began as a pro e.u. push descended into an out and out attack on the leadership the usual buzzwords of democracy justice and the will of the people were interspersed with not so subtle calls for the president because you know to admit he's been beaten this is clear.

channel four is arsalan conscious and they're not even hiding more so this is something that's should be unacceptable. am i standing widely seen as a clear breach of diplomatic conduct it also raised questions in moscow. but i can imagine how our german partners would have felt if russia's foreign minister decided to attend a rally that was being held against german room i don't think they would consider it a friendly step meeting with opposition members is one thing but taking part in rallies that's interference in domestic affairs. early in the week the government survived a no confidence vote in the ukrainian parliament was. defeated by the democratic process opposition m.p.'s went home to block the stage and stalling parliament. outside protest leaders called on people to take over as many civic offices as possible what should have been

a public debate on the pros and cons of the friendship has descended into a foreign fuelled meddling to boost an opposition with a different axe to grind it is go our tea. party and as the anti-government protests and ukrainian capital grow so do their rallies in support of blocking the trade deal with. thousands of pro-government activists descended on the capital and towns across the east of the country to make their voice heard recent polls suggest ukraine sharply divided on the issue of e.u. integration with more than seventy percent of people in the west of the country favoring the deal while the pro e.u. mood is shared by less than thirty percent of people in the east a prominent foreign affairs analyst doctors and says and the unlikely case of a revolution people in the east will not sit idly by. if there is a pro e.u. neo orange revolution there would be a pro customs union pro russian counter-revolution so it would be the path to the

civil war because let's face it in the industrial base in of the east they know that if they join the e.u. package they will of course they will never join the e.u. itself they would lose customs privileges in russia and their industrial goods which are still being exported to russia in increasing quantities would certainly become thirty five percent more expensive which would price them out of the market in the same time i doubt very much that e.u. countries will suddenly express an interest in buying ukraine real goods so even if there is an attempt at the violent overthrow of the government there would be definitely a very sizable counterforce ready to come onto the streets it is no longer two thousand and four when no one was willing to risk their skin for. meanwhile there

are fears the upcoming so-called million man march could become fertile ground for a repeat of last weekend's violent unrest both the government and the opposition agree the riots were deliberately instigated but they differ on who's been behind them down mcadams executive director of the ron paul institute things think tank says such provocation is part of a pattern often used in coup attempts we see a pattern here of of escalation in provocation we've seen it before in these previous revolutions i think really the protesters on the ground they had a very large protocol provocation a few nights ago they were using chains and tractors and of course the police as police do everywhere reacted with violence the u.s. has counseled nonviolence but what would happen if someone drove a tractor and tried to drive it into the white house lawn you're going to tell me that there wouldn't be violence against the one hundred thousand people trying to break into the white house so everywhere governments would normally protect their

buildings later in the hour r.t. also looks into the economic troubles ukraine is suffering in addition to the political crisis in venture capital with katie. residents of a tiny village in eastern romania have managed to stop a u.s. oil giant exploring for shale gas near worthy live at least for the moment demonstrators are now refusing to leave the drilling site despite a heavy police presence saying the controversial extraction method could permanently damage the environment lucic often of has the details. in a remote part of romania a day of rage and fury. protesters stormed a work site operated by chevron and the police responded with for force those who didn't leave willingly were dragged away so you can see. in what country we are living the police forces are behaving like a private protection company for

a so wrong. but what the people here want to know is who will protect them from big business this is one of the poorest corners of the european union but it's believed to sit on top of large reserves of valuable natural gas it's the sort of place that's changed a little over the centuries horse drawn carts are still a common mode of transportation and most of the residents still live off the land land which could soon be pumped full of toxic fluid in order to get the fuel underneath it's a simple everyday action to drive water out of the well for the villagers here and put in jest this is really what's at the heart of the matter the environment and the water for them it's not so much about fighting chevron as it is about protecting both their lives and livelihoods of all my years i have been working on

the land it is the only live the time now during the day due isn't your typical sort of protester a farmer all her life she and her husband were also some of the first villagers to speak out against chevron's plans to drill for natural gas in their community we've heard horror stories of water supplies being polluted for is no longer being green we don't want to risk everything for these companies to make a profit. chevron says it's committed to working with the local community to drill without damaging the environment it insists that it is abiding by all safety rules but that's not reassuring for farmers like vassily. they could completely destroy us we just want to protect what's important once we're in our land and that's what they've done for more than a month now braving the cold villagers set up makeshift tents across from the company's drilling site chevron did temporarily suspend its operations but last

week the camp was raided by the police i was punched in the face it was humiliating rumanian but the police treated us like criminals i felt like we were so doubt we tied ourselves together to form a human chain across the road the police officers came in just like moves they were kicking ass and beating us with their bottoms i was kicked here there was another religious reason hospital night because of how hard they hit him in the stomach. and on saturday more violence would began as a peaceful demonstration was broken up by force of. another arrest the protests are at an end but demonstrators continue to get taken away in this car in some ways it's a case of david versus goliath a tiny romanian village fighting to get an energy giant chevron off of its land but despite the arrests despite the protests and despite the clash as the chevron

trucks are already here and the work looks set to go on reporting input in jest romania for r.t.e. . environmental campaigner george barda believes when it comes to choosing between people and corporations politicians are trying to have their cake and eat it too. what you see essentially is this this battle between big business and the interests of the people and a consistent pattern both in the u.k. and remind you where you're saying major figures from the energy industry moving into into government directly but david cameron as i came came to power on the promise of being the greenest government ever and what we've seen is exactly the opposite in romania it seems that in the same scenario we say i believe it says so it's not fracking because the people want it and then when he's in power he starts going to the tune as a these major players like chevron. tearing down fans at chevron's fracking side and scuffles with police you can see off our pictures from

the scene online at our t. dot com. on thursday the world lost one of its most iconic leaders nelson mandela died aged ninety five after a long illness south africa's first black president and the man who led the country out of decades of apartheid spent his final days surrounded by family at home and john his work are disposed looks at the legacy of south africa's greatest son. he's the man who pulled a troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil war the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walks free from prison in his heart was not revenge but i think that his greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation but in the last three decades the world tirelessly polished the image of nelson mandela

an image recognized around the world only coca-cola is bishan own but a man who struggle for racial equality against south africa's ruling white minority had a dark side the world has conveniently forgotten about and also mind of in need of a struggle. a radical. someone. embraced violence and as a necessary political instrument at a particular juncture in our history this house was the secret headquarters of the african national congress it was here in the early sixty's that mandela and his comrades launched the armed struggle it was also here that most of them were wasted put on trial and same turns to life in prison at what was known as the rivonia trial in one thousand nine hundred sixty four mandela and ten of his colleagues faced the death penalty for sabotage nelson mandela was called a terrorist because he took up arms against their party government. governments lie

to support the government they claim legitimacy the west had big investments gold mines industry the sea transport links to the east the cape route was very important they supported the apartheid government any opponent was therefore a terrorist it's don't fall apart it would have lasted as long as it did if the world community hadn't closed ranks behind the white government but its prime minister margaret thatcher denounce mandela as a terrorist and years later she will come to mandela to downing street. washington also did a one hundred eighty degree turn although it was only in two thousand and eight that it was moved all references to mandela and his colleagues as terrorists from its database mandela was not alone in world leaders who endured a love hate relationship at the hands of the west darlings of the west one moment villains the next libya's moammar gadhafi egypt's hosni mubarak to name but a few south african journalist chris bishop believes the one nine hundred sixty

four trial that saw mandela and his comrades sentenced to life helped turn the world in their favor during the trial. the gentleman who are on trial the rivonia trial as they went from being the accused of being people on in the dark slowly transformed they became the benjamin franklin's of africa became the freedom fighters they became a man of principle who is standing up merely for the rights of others and it's turned world opinion around from a vile terrorist to one of the greatest freedom fighters to have ever walked the earth the story of nelson mandela is remarkable a man who stood up for the rights of people everywhere but also a familiar tale of governments putting a garland of flowers around your neck one day and a rope the next point r.t.e. johannesburg south africa. and coming out r.t.

it. it's new law takes hold cheerleading outfit it's face trial for assaulting police officers during demonstrations last month plus. iceland authorities ease the debts of their country man in a unique solution to financial woes while italians can only wait for their compatriots charity. sweden's been helping america's n.s.a. to spy on russia and provided washington with a list of high profile targets what is state t.v. side of documents leaked by whistleblower edward snowden and a recent program called mission investigate its chief editor told r.t. what they discovered we have a. very close relationship between the swedish defense radio authority f.r.a. and american counterpart and a state and. according to the documents. if i may have spied spying on the russian leadership and they are passing this

information on to n.s.a. we got access to these documents thanks to edward snowden so far we had on to have details more than the documents are mentioning. by talking about. intel against us by talking about classic intel against us and they also mentioning cables the spokesman f.r.a. didn't give any comments but. when axed asked about being. seen as a leading partner that's the way that spell it in these documents it for a is a leading partner to n.s.a. then he says ok that's flattering he ses so that's the only comment we have received so far british investigative journalist polish mara thinks the snowden

leaks show the real extent of international mass surveillance everybody knows everybody spies on everybody else that we don't know the extent i think what's going on here is we will always know for a long while that the swedish. capability is. developed that is worth a lot with the british intelligence in the past but as with all things to do with snowden's documents there's one thing before experts on the outside think oh you know suspecting that we are under all sorts of civilian lives it's quite another when we start to get the evidence that the sheer scale of international mass of individuals government sheer scale of it is absolutely phenomenal. despite public criticism some governments protect their spying programs as something essential earlier this week the editor of britain's guardian newspaper face questioning by m.p.'s who believe that the publishing of snowden's revelations put a dent in national security are just our first reports on the growing. well was the

hearing it was it was lively at times it got quite heavy handed i think it's fair to say the editor of the guardian newspaper managing to answer all these questions but some of the questions i think will raise some eyebrows certainly we heard at one point and then p. i asked alan rusbridger do you love your country now that wasn't the only question that is going to be raising eyebrows we also heard one m.p. seemingly compare some of the guardian disclosures of the edward snowden files to the leaking of secrets to the nazis let's take a listen to that. if you bought the book though during world war two would you were transmitted down to the british to the nazi now the question session all the more interesting if you compare it to what place at the beginning of last month and there we saw the heads of the u.k. intelligence agencies and my five and my six g.c. h.q. and they'd come before another parliamentary committee and they're questioning much

calmer much more coordinated and so i think this is something that the editor of the guardian also made note of in his questioning today because of strictly that did happen was dealt with by the i.o.c. with the following. can we assume you're having discussions with your colleagues the hundreds of thousands of people who just your. three of us who build eleusis coaches jim jim thank you very much i was coming towards the end of that session we heard alan rusbridger asked if the guardian would continue to publish revelations and he said that they wouldn't be intimidated but they wouldn't behave recklessly and that was quite important i think in today's session he really made note of the level of scrutiny that the journalists involved in publishing these stories undertook and saying that they have behaved responsibly and has sparked this debate now about the scope of the surveillance that intelligence

a. things in this country have undertaken so certainly i think this debate not going away anytime soon and as we wait for the line the n.s.a.'s appetite for private data seems only to be growing as the tentacles of u.s. elegance continue to entwine the world after its excessively launches a new surveillance satellite with a logo speaking for itself. was julia son's remains holed up in ecuador's london embassy the world famous whistleblower marks his third year span of virtual detention in the u.k. without having even been charged by all the details at r.t. dot com. right from the street. first street. and i think that you're. on our reporters would.

be in the. watching r.t. international egyptian activists are feeling the effect of the country's latest law which bans unauthorized demonstrations to weaken campaigners are set to go on trial charged with taking part in illegal gatherings are just bill troop reports from cairo two leading secular activists mehan adama will be in court today for the first session of the trial they're being taunted illegally protesting and for allegedly assaulting police officers in demonstrations last month the two men who were prominent voices in the january two thousand and seven revolution among the first to be trying to for the offense related to egypt's new controversial protest though it was in force by the government last month and bans all rallies over ten people from gathering the information ministry of interior there was mass aprile when the law was promulgated as people here say most protests are against interior

ministry and the brutality of that police force and they will give security forces a copy of the by let me disperse demonstrations this is something we've certainly seen in the last few weeks security forces have used tear gas water cannons and birdshot but it's against protesters attempting to run it without permission for the government that backed by the military is defending the legislation saying it's essential to restore law and order and also to help egypt's talk to the economy the trial marks a key turning point in the summer the military in the government had targeted islamist supporters of mohamed morsy with trial is showing that the government is widely as cracked down to include all forms of dissent leaving people here in egypt to be in the country is returning to a police state. now around one hundred supporters of the far right democratic party of germany have protested against asylum shelters for refugees in leipsic a march was set and one of the centers recently opened in the city but the riot police stopped them before they reached the facility the rally was met by

anti-fascist activists chanting slogans about refugees being welcomed in the country. attack on a police post in colombia's eastern community of has left nine people dead including civilians the assailants believed to be from their rebel group fark through fired mortars from a truck and destroyed several buildings realize have been engaged in negotiations with the government for over a year aimed at stopping the ongoing conflict that has claimed over two hundred thousand lives. more french troops will be sent to the central african republic to confront the rising wave of sectarian violence there a reinforcement comes after the un authorized military operation to stop the bloodshed over the last few days nearly four hundred people have been killed in battles between christian militias loyal to the ousted president a muslim rebels who control the country the african union has also increased the number of soldiers it's deployed there lawrence freeman from b. executive intelligence review magazine believes that french troops come to the

region not only to stop the violence. recently france has become more. militarily and i think the problem with that france and britain have not given up their intent on having at the news of some of the resources and wealth of the african countries or so i think france and suffering serious problems at home. devastating collapse in living standards throughout all. many of these things i think combine to push france forward into somebodies military activities. more of them recently than we've seen before. i'll be back with more news in around fifteen minutes time but in the meantime katie pilgrim talks ukraine's financial turmoil in her show venture capital.

i play this street cleaner who's in love with a waitress i go on stage managing that there's an audience i used to take drugs and drink like a fish called the police told me about the circus but i was such a punk i was like what circus. school or circus is clearly kids. and would break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. quite often countries rich in natural resources are the poorest africa is a colony it's a colony of the big corporations it's a colony of someone's home leaders who are under the thumbs of the big corporations so they have to beg from the world bank development of social programs goes to pay

back debts whole country is drowning under the amount of debt that they had and so every year they would borrow money. and they would use that same amount of money to pay back oh that's. all that money really. the wages of debt. deal limpid torch is on its epic journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. really by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp torch relay. on r t r g dot com.

hello welcome to vent have to with me katie pilgrim it's been a busy business week we've had the chinese currency the yuan taking over from the euro yes the second most widely used currency in the world we're going to delve into details and get analysis in just a minute or two on that one we're also going to be talking about ukraine because we know the protests ongoing and it means to the economy it's gone from bad to watch it's fragile as it is again we're going to delve into detail on that what we've also got the fact that russia's biggest employer russia melways its slashing jobs what does that mean exactly corporate news to come our in-house investor mr shawn thomas he went over the course on us last week he was heading towards a financial so we'll see how he's been getting on but first i want to start with the chinese currency because as i say it's now the second most widely used cars in the world so it's below the u.s. dollar but it's overtaken the euro so what exactly is happened in the last year

that mark can tell you that last year its share of global trade was just over one percent and now we fast forward it's reached almost nine percent so what happened to the euro in contrast last year it had almost eight percent now it's got just over six percent now this is coming at a time when china is changing things up a bit it's in a state of transition now we know that the state is loosening controls on exchange rates as well as boring costs as well so i want to get expert analysis so i'm going to speak to david quote he's from motley fool and just see david i want to know when the euro was first introduced it was supposed to rival the u.s. dollar as the global reserve we've now got the one overtaking the year i said you think that that dream is well and truly dead. what a wonderful question i think as far as the euro's from sort of.